Trump: Obama blew off the deadline

Donald Trump said Thursday was a “very, very sad day” after President Barack Obama did not meet his noon deadline to release his college and passport application records in exchange for $5 million to a charity of the president’s choosing.

“All the president had to do is give simple documentation, simple paper, a few pages and a charity would have gotten $5 million, or substantially more,” Trump said in a video posted on his Facebook page. “Whether it was Wounded Warriors, whether it was the American Cancer Society, whether it was even the relatives of the victims of Beghazi, which I think would be an appropriate situation, the president decided that he wouldn’t be doing it.”

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Trump made the offer last month in another video posted on Facebook and Twitter, while Obama laughed off the offer on an appearance on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.”

“In fact, just the opposite: He spent millions of dollars in legal fees to keep his records secret. There’s a total lack of transparency,” the mogul added in Thursday’s video. “Someday, those papers will come out and people will say, ‘You know what? Donald Trump was right.’ This is very, very sad day for the United States of America.”